Defective sound system

There was a large public attendance at this meeting, with the Central Library and the Amey contract prominent on the agenda, (December 7, 2016).

By The Newsroom

Published 19th Dec 2016, 05:58 BST

Updated 29th Dec 2016, 14:02 BST

Central Library and Graves Art Gallery. Picture: Andrew Roe

The impressive Nelson Mandela room was used as an ‘overflow’ for well over 100 people who wouldn’t fit into the main chamber.

However, the sound system was defective: notes were being passed around urging that council chief executive Mothersole be informed.

I can only describe the interference as being like listening to long-wave on a clapped-out portable radio, using a coat hanger as a makeshift aerial, during a thunderstorm.

I had the mischievous idea that Amey had already been secretly contracted to maim the Town Hall acoustic system.

Simon Rawlins

Town Hall